Bowden v. State

BOWEN, Judge.

In 1988, the appellant, Autrey Lee Bow-den, was convicted for the 1987 murder of Vincent Terrell Neely. That conviction was reversed on appeal due to the admission of improper hearsay testimony concerning the meaning of certain numbers on a restaurant cash register receipt and the improper admission of expert testimony regarding the relative positions of the victim and his assailant at the time of the shooting. Bowden v. State, 542 So.2d 335 (Ala.Cr.App.1989). The appellant was retried in 1990 and that conviction was reversed on appeal due to the admission of hearsay testimony…